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England’s King Edward III was one of the greatest military innovators of the Middle Ages. His son, the Black Prince, became one of the period’s most renowned commanders. Our special this issue takes a look at this extraordinary partnership.

Edward implemented a series of radical reforms in English military organisation that turned his country into an armed camp and a launch-pad for successive attempts to make good the English monarchy’s claim to the French crown. Central to this was a new tactical system of defensive linear warfare that combined ‘bill and bow’ – a system that delivered the extraordinarily one-sided victory at Crécy in August 1346.

Also in this issue, we revisit General Wolfe’s capture of Quebec in 1759. Sam Allison and Jon Bradley offer a forensic analysis of Wolfe’s underestimated brilliance.

We then have two very different WWII stories. Richard Selcer offers a detailed account of the greatest naval disaster of all time – the sinking of the German passenger liner Wilhelm Gustloff in the Baltic on the night of 30 January 1945 – while James Morningstar discusses the Philippine resistance to the Japanese occupation between 1941 and 1945.

Finally, William Stroock recounts the decisive Battle of Chinese Farm in the Sinai Desert in October 1973 – the armoured clash between Egyptian and Israeli forces that determined the outcome of the Yom Kippur War.

Cover Date: Feb / Mar 2022, Volume 11 Issue 6

Cover Story

Edward III, the Black Prince, and the Battle of Crécy Graham Goodlad analyses the joint careers of the father and son who led England’s armies in the early campaigns of the Hundred Years War.

Features

Popular Resistance and the Fall of Imperial Japan The Japanese surge between December 1941 and June 1942 – between, that is, Pearl Harbor and Midway – created a…

The Battle of Crécy, 26 August 1346 Neil Faulkner analyses the first great victory of Edward III’s new tactical system in the Hundred Years War.

The Battle of Chinese Farm William Stroock analyses the decisive battle of the 1973 Yom Kippur War: a massive clash of Egyptian and Israeli armour…

Wolfe at Quebec: a new analysis Sam Allison and Jon Bradley offer a forensic reappraisal of General James Wolfe’s spectacular victory.

The Philippines, 1942-1945: the resistance and the return James Kelly Morningstar describes the Philippine resistance to the Japanese occupation during WWII.

‘The worst maritime disaster ever’: the Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff Hitler’s Nazi Empire was in its death agony. Millions of Germans were desperate to escape the fast-advancing Red Army. Richard…

Comment

War Classics: History of the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century What is immediately striking reading Oman is the depth of his scholarship... These are works of exceptional length and detail.

News

Pre-Columbian mass grave found in Peru

Australia’s famous ‘unknown sailor’ identified after 80 years

Vera Brittain’s wartime service medals acquired by museum

Record of Scotland’s largest battle to be updated

Rare Roman dagger found by young amateur archaeologist in Switzerland

Last surviving ‘Band of Brothers’ officer Edward Shames dies

New film depicts Allies’ legendary ‘Mincemeat’ deception

Views

MHM Letters January 2022 Your thoughts on issues raised by the magazine.

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The Junkers 322 Mammut and the Messerschmitt 321/323 Gigant All three of these aircraft originated with a 1940 requirement for a large assault glider in preparation for Operation Sealion,…

Museum review – The Night Hunters: The Royal Navy’s Coastal Forces at War REVIEWING THE BEST MILITARY HISTORY EXHIBITIONS WITH Graham Goodlad.

The wartime art of Laura Knight Laura Knight was blessed with some of the essential qualities of any great artist: a broadness of outlook and a…

War of words – ‘ovation’ Marcus Claudius Marcellus asked the Senate to grant him a triumph. He was refused because the fighting in his former…

Reviews

Review: Eye in the Sky Taylor Downing reviews a classic war movie.

Munich – The Edge of War George MacKay (pictured) once again demonstrates he has the face of a wartime hero in this new adaptation of the…

When France Fell: the Vichy crisis and the fate of the Anglo-American alliance In the midst of Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of French North Africa in November 1942, the famous war reporter…

Blood and Ruins: the great imperial war, 1931-1945 While many historians drill deeper into their sources and produce more detailed and specialist works, it is excellent to find…

Boy Soldiers: a personal story of Nazi elite schooling and its legacy of trauma An old German proverb has it that ‘a great war leaves the country with three armies – an army of…

Lawrence of Arabia’s Secret dispatches in the Arab Revolt, 1915-1919 Fabrizio Bagatti has made a major contribution to Lawrence of Arabia studies with the publication of this volume. Until now,…

Between Two Hells: the Irish Civil War I am always perplexed by political commentators who suggest that the possibility of Northern Ireland being reunited with Éire or…

The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War In his introduction to this exceptionally worthwhile volume, Stephen Robinson describes how, during the Gulf War, General Tommy Franks, a true…

New film depicts Allies’ legendary ‘Mincemeat’ deception Colin Firth and Matthew Macfadyen star in this retelling of the 1943 Allied plan to keep the invasion of Sicily…

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